'Fahrenheit' Webcast turns activist heat up

'Fahrenheit' Webcast turns activist heat up: "It was quite a juxtaposition: the clink of cool champagne glasses and an incendiary documentary.
Perhaps 150 Michael Moore fans/George W. Bush non-fans jammed the cushy confines of the Bubble Lounge, on Montgomery near Columbus, to sip bubbly and participate in the nationally Webcast 'Turn Up the Heat' town hall meeting Monday night. The young and the sleek in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, well- heeled Financial District Dems, fleece-clad Sierra Clubbers with graying hair -- an eclectic crowd sat in overstuffed chairs and on barstools, and when those were filled, on the floor in front of a movie screen, on which was projected a computer Web page.
Moveon.org hosted the only-in-the-21st-century event, proving again that the activist nonprofit is among the most savvy when it comes to organizing the troops. On the heels of the phenomenal opening of Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' and with just a few days of publicity and planning, Moveon had managed to mobilize its members to organize house -- or bar or bookstore -- parties for the purpose of hearing Moore speak and answer questions in real time. "


Jane Ganahl